auDA’s 2024-25 Annual Report: Strengthening .au for a resilient digital future

.au Domain Administration (auDA) today released its 2024-25 Annual Report, centred on the theme Strengthening .au for a resilient digital future. The report outlines auDA’s work delivering a secure, reliable and trusted .au domain name system with uninterrupted availability to .au websites and email addresses for internet users around the world.

In financial year 2024-25, auDA met it goals under its 2021-25 Strategy, and undertook development of its new 2026-30 Strategy, to position .au and auDA effectively for the future.

The 2024-25 Annual Report highlights achievements over the year including:

• Supporting more than 4.2 million .au domain names under management
• Delivering a stable, reliable .au with 100 per cent availability of the .au domain name system (DNS), WHOIS service and registry, enabling access to .au websites and emails
• Commencing the 2025 .au Licensing Rules Review to ensure the rules continue to align with community expectations
• Launching the Research and Development Grant Program to fund multi-year projects that advance knowledge that seeks to improve how people access and benefit from the internet
• Hosting the first Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy (APIGA) Australia program to develop the next generation of young leaders to develop and apply the shared principles, norms, rules, and decision-making procedures that shape the internet's evolution and use
• Publishing auDA’s new 2026-30 Strategy, developed with input from auDA staff, Board Directors and auDA’s multi-stakeholder community, incorporating governments, the private sector, the technical community, academia and civil society
• Launching auDA’s Reconciliation Action Plan to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and developing the auDA Sustainability Framework for operating in an environmental and socially responsible way
• Welcoming Bruce Tonkin as CEO and farewelling Rosemary Sinclair AM when she stepped down at the end of December 2024.

auDA Chair Alan Cameron AO said: “auDA’s 2024-25 Annual Report evidences another productive and successful financial year. Through our engagement with the multi-stakeholder community and robust governance, auDA has established a strong foundation to deliver against its 2026–30 strategic goals and meet the challenges of a dynamic future operating environment.”

auDA CEO Bruce Tonkin said: “Over the last financial year auDA demonstrated its ongoing commitment to delivering a secure, reliable and trusted .au. The contributions of auDA staff, Board, .au members and stakeholders have been critical to growing value for our multi-stakeholder community. The .au remains well placed to continue to deliver necessary access to .au websites and email addresses for Australians and internet users globally.”

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Read the auDA 2024-25 Annual Report on auDA’s website.